40Synonyms found for stat

Word Origin & History

stat "instrument that keeps something stationary," before 1970, shortened form of L. statim (adv.), originally "to a standstill," from status (see state). The combining form -stat used in devices for stabilizing (thermostat, etc.) is from Gk. statos "standing, stationary," from histanai "to cause to stand," from PIE base *sta- "to stand" (see stet). First used in heliostat "an instrument for causing the sun to appear stationary" (1742).

Example Sentences for stat

Stat-up costs are high but in the long run the savings more than pay for the investment.

Critics, meanwhile, worry that these stat-happy quants take the human out of the humanities.

And fantasy baseball fanatics can track their players with stat-filled player cards.

However, the observation he makes as a result of this stat is completely speculation.

Problem is, to calculate that stat, economists remove stores that have closed from their sample.

It's important for readers to know how development works so good for posting that stat.

However, it wasn't my lit but my stat prof who said the plural of anecdote is not synonymous to data.

The fact that two systems with oppositely-pointed arrows of time would interfere with each other follows from basic stat mech.

Emma blows her stack again, which makes me fear it will become a stack schtick, stat.